A new study from Bar-Ilan University shows that one of sleep's core functions originated hundreds of millions of years ago in ...

Researchers in Japan built a miniature human brain circuit using fused stem-cell–derived organoids, allowing them to watch ...

Humans have the remarkable ability to remember the same person or object in completely different situations. We can easily ...

Researchers say study findings may lead to a more promising future for cell therapy targeting stroke and other neurological disorders.

A new study reveals that nerve cells receive periodic infusions of mitochondria from neighboring cells — and this may point ...

Mice have remained the focal point for life sciences research for the past several decades. Their universality in biomedicine ...

The human brain must be able to link memory content to the circumstances in which it occurs. Researchers in Bonn have now discovered how the human brain uses two different groups of neurons to store ...

This is an important study on the sensory roles of Cerebrospinal fluid-contacting neurons (CBF-cn) in mammals. The authors identify PKD2L1 as the predominant pH-sensing channel CBF-cn and show how the ...

For decades, restoring sight after severe eye damage sat firmly in the realm of science fiction. Now a wave of converging ...

One of the most well-studied cellular responses is how they react during times of stress, such as when the temperature gets ...

Sleep may have evolved to help reduce DNA damage in nerve cells long before they became centralized in the brain, a study ...